Votes

Additions to Hooverism included:

Daniel Willard, President of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Reason: "unusual ability and wide knowledge of the world."

Dr. Randall Judson Condon, Democrat, superintendent of Cincinnati's schools. Reason: "a moral issue."

Elizabeth Flournoy Smith, California Democrat, member (resigned) of the State Central Committee. Reason: Tammany.

More than 500 authors and publicists. Last fortnight the Democrats announced an Authors' Committee of 149 names, including Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Anita Loos, John Erskine, Finley Peter Dunne, George S. Kaufman, Laurence Stallings, Deems Taylor, etc., etc. (TIME, Sept. 24). The G. O. P. list was by far the bestseller. It included Zane Grey, Harold Bell Wright, Kathleen Norris, Edward W. Bok, Bruce Barton, Earl Derr Biggers, Will Durant, Albert W. Atwood, Robert W. Chambers, Booth Tarkington, Thomas L. Masson, Hermann Hagedorn, Vernon Kellogg, Daniel Frohman, Don Marquis. The last, an oldtime Democrat, author of The Old Soak, said: "I like the man: his tone, his manner, his essential character."